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Saint Ignatius: A challenging life by Mary Purcell.

Folder of material related to the relic of St Francis Xavier's at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. Includes newspaper articles, correspondence, article on the origins of the plan to secure the relic for Gardiner street Church and airline and gardai details.

Obituary of Fr Hugh Kelly SJ by Mary Purcell from the magazine of the Medical Missionaries of Mary.

Notes on Killiney Castle and Druid Lodge, Killiney, County Dublin by Fr Fergal McGrath SJ, (former Irish Province Archivist) referring to a letter he received from Miss Mary Purcell, 32 Gardiner Place, Dublin 1 (whose letter is also contained in this file). Fr McGrath traces the use of Killiney Castle by the Society of Jesus (nd, 1p). Includes a letter from Mary Purcell to Fr McGrath concerning the sale of Killiney Castle to the St John of God Brothers, France. Another property is also referred to by Miss Purcell who discovered this reference in a minute of a council meeting of the Brothers of St John of God but it is unclear if this other property also belonged to the Society of Jesus. The St John of God Brothers did not continue negotiations with the Society (18 August 1977, 2pp).

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial relating to pictures of St Ignatius Loyola in a book by Mary Purcell.

Letter of sympathy from Mary Purcell, 32 Gardiner Place, Dublin to Irish Fr Provincial Paddy Doyle SJ following the death of Fr john Coyne SJ.